Captain Marvel #39

Captain Marvel #39

Comic: Captain Marvel #39
Language: English
Publisher: Marvel Comics
Year: July 1975
Condition: Fine Plus, FN+, 6.5

Captain Marvel #39 with a story by Steve Englehart (writer), Al Milgrom (artist) and Klaus Janson (inker). The comic book is in a good used condition.

In December 1967, Captain Marvel made his first appearance in issue 12 of the comic series Marvel Super Heroes. Marvel Comics was determined to secure the superhero's name, since another Captain Marvel - also known as SHAZAM - was causing mischief at the competition. Since Marvel's Captain appeared in a completely different costume in unassuming shades of green and was also an alien (Kree), there were no legal issues. Right after his second appearance (in Marvel Super Heroes #13) he got his own series. From 1968 to 1979, a total of 62 issues of his adventures were published. Comic legend Gene Colan (1926-2011) drew the first stories in his usual dynamic style. In issue 17, the Captain underwent a radical costume change and finally received a red and dark blue costume, linking him to many iconic superheroes. (DC's Superman and Marvel's Thor, for example, also wear red and blue.) A fun fact on the side: Captain Marvel is one of the few superheroes (perhaps the only one?) who died and actually stayed dead. Superhero deaths have become quite inflationary in recent years - only the heroes never really stay dead. They always come back. Not this Captain, though. In 1982, Jim Starlin had the Kree Mar-Vell die unspectacularly and ordinarily of cancer in the graphic novel The Death of Captain Marvel.

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